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From: toml@marvin.Solbourne.COM (Tom LaStrange)
Newsgroups: comp.windows.x.motif
Subject: Re: Changing the pointer in ALL windows
Message-ID: <TOML.91May10102957@marvin.Solbourne.COM>
Date: 10 May 91 17:29:57 GMT
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In-Reply-To: masa@hpsciz.sc.hp.com's message of 3 May 91 15:59:09 GMT

|>     I am writing a motif application which has many top-level windows.
|>     I would like to have the pointer change to a watch in all those windows
|>     to notify the user to wait.  Unfotunately, it looks to me like you have
|>     to do a XDefineCursor using the window ID for EACH of the popup windows
|>     to get that to happen.  Is there anyway around this?  I tried using the
|>     toplevel widget returned from XtInitialize, but that only changes the
|>     pointer for that window.  
|> 
|> As far as I know, that's correct. So I ended up with writing a little
|> extra code which maintains a list of windows and when asked, change
|> the cursor of all those windows to either a watch or an arrow.


It's much much easier than that.  You could simply create a large InputOnly
window as a child of your top-level window, set the cursor to whatever
you want and XMapRaised the thing.  Simply unmap it to get rid of
your cursor.  I'm not an Xt user so I can't tell you if there are any problems
with this approach.

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(I kid you not)Tom LaStrange        toml@Solbourne.COM